La crema

catalana

INGREDIENTS:. 1 litre of milk.. 8 tablespoons of sugar.. 6 egg yolks. 1 cinnamon stick.. A bit of lemon peel.. 5 tablespoons of cornstard.

We need ¾ litre of milk and a cinnamon branch.

Add 8 tablespoons of sugars(aproximately 150 grs).

Add a small piece of lemon peel.

Put the mixture to cook and stir until it boils.

Boil the mixture for 3 or 4 minutes so all the mixture will have the cinnamon and lemon flavour. Let the mixture go cold.

Put 5 tablespoons of cornstard in glass or in a bowl.

Pour ¼ litre of milk to the cornstarch and mix well.

Beat one complete egg and 5 egg yolks.

Add the cool milk using a strainer.

Add the eggs to the milk and beat the mixture with a hand whish.

Add the conrstarch dissolved in the glass of milk.

Cook over the mixture a low heat for about ten minutes.

Don’t stop stirring until the mixture thickens. Take it out of the heat but go on stirring for 2 more minutes.

Put the cream in individual sized bowls.

Before serving it, throw some sugar on the cream.

Burn the sugar with a very hot metal.

Here you have the Catalan Cream

Bon profit!